Announcements & Events

The Maryland Museums Association encourages museums, historic sites, and cultural attractions across the state to be resources for accurate historical information and context regarding confederate statues; to be leaders in facilitating difficult, but important discussions about them; to provide safe, welcoming spaces for such discussions to take place; and to engage with and listen to the communities of which they are a part. As an organization, we unequivocally condemn violence, hatred, bigotry, and racism of any kind. Below is a list of resources for those sites looking for context, guidance, and examples from other sites on how to deal with this issue:

Attention Museum Professionals! Join the staff of the Babe Ruth Birthplace & Museum for a beer (or wine) as they chronicle their 2015 gallery redesign using inexpensive technologies such as SC-card players, audio boxes, and graphic presentations. RSVP to shawnh@baberuthmuseum.org

Join
us at the Sandy Spring Museum
to review an exceptional interactive exhibit, Weaving Community. From September through December, all visitors
to the Museum are invited to weave on a giant loom that will be constructed
from the eleven-foot tall oak beams that frame the exhibit hall.Working with artist Suzanne Herbert-Forson,
everyone is invited to weave with us on a larger-than life loom, to add your
creative input into this group project, and to meet new people. Everyone is
encouraged to bring their own materials to weave into the project! Suitable items include yarn, fabric strips,
belts, ties, long pieces of wire, and so on. “Weaving community” is a metaphor
for bringing together diverse elements of the community.

From
6:30 p.m. to 8:00 p.m., the Museum will be hosting
its monthly History Happy Hour with archaeologists from the University of Maryland
speaking about The Hill: Maryland’s Oldest Black Community.Tickets will be half price ($10) for
Brew’n’Review attendees.

The
site is located on the north side of Maryland
108 in Sandy Spring.Parking is available.

Come
to visit Clara Barton's Missing Soldiers' Office (managed by the National
Museum of Civil War Medicine under contract with the US General Services
Administration).The site was uncovered
by a GSA staff member in 1996, and it has recently opened to the public on
weekends.

Interpretive
plans are developing, and Mary Alexander will lead a discussion of options for
tours and other public programs.

The
site is located at 4377th Street NW,
just one block south of the Gallery Place Metro stop.Parking in the area is not only scarce but
expensive, so use the Metro if possible.

This is the next in a series of Peer Review events organized by MAHM to bring Maryland museum professionals together for lively discussions on important topics in the field. All are welcome and encouraged to attend.

This Brew and Review will be a discussion and exhibition critique about CBMM’s Navigating Freedom: The War of 1812 on the Chesapeake. Offering a social history perspective, this exhibit integrates new research about slavery from a Pulitzer-prize winning author and the MD State Archives while utilizing a variety of interpretative methods including cultural mapping, audio interactives, a detailed diorama and as well as a 3-D virtual flyover of the region.

Come discuss this innovative project with Robert Forloney, the Director of the Center for Chesapeake Studies and the overall Project Director for this initiative.

The Maryland Association of History Museums has gone "live" with its new Google Groups listserve! We are very excited about this new tool to help Maryland museums personnel keep-in-touch and share their knowledge and resources with one another.

Alternately, you may also join by sending an e-mail request to info@hsobc.org, or by e-mailing any MAHM board member explicitly stating you would like to join the Maryland Association of History Museums listserve. Please indicate what school or museum you are affiliated with and in what capacity.

Note: You may use your pre-existing work/personal e-mail account to join this MAHM Google Groups listserve (a Google Gmail account is NOT required). Please note, however, that you will still have to sign-up/register your non-Google e-mail with Google ahead of time to join the listserve. The process is simple, and involves little more than registering your current e-mail address with Google and picking a password at Google's new account page.

Below are some general guidelines for using the listserve...

Be polite
and respectful at all times. Failure to abide by the following may
result in either a warning, or immediate removal from the group.

What may I use this for?This listserve is intended as a forum for collegial
discussion, questions and assistance among Maryland's community of professional
or volunteer museum docents, directors, curators, exhibitors, educators, students and teachers.

What should I not use it for?The listserve is not intended as a means of
publicizing the programs of individual sites, unless said program is a type of
workshop intended to advance the knowledge and quality of the Maryland museums
community generally, or to facilitate broader discussion about museums
work.Moreover, solicitors will not be
entertained, and any such users may be immediately removed or warned pending the
situation.

Do I have to be a MAHM member to use the listserve?No.
Membership in the Maryland Association of History Museums is not
required to join. However, membership is strongly
encouraged, as the purpose of MAHM is to improve the quality of museum
programming and exhibiting state-wide.

MAHM Mission: The Maryland Association of History Museums is an
alliance of historical and cultural institutions that collect, hold,
interpret and protect the cultural and material heritage within the
state. The association advocates for members by enhancing
professionalism in those institutions and individuals, and promoting
awareness of museum interests.

This is the next in a series of Peer Review events organized by MAHM tobring Maryland museum professionals together for a lively discussion onimportant topics in the field.

This Brew & Review will be a discussion about the “Pints & the Past”program run by the Historical Society of Frederick. “Pints & the Past”is a free series for anyone interested in getting together to chat abouthistory. This creative means of engaging audiences in history is part of alarger trend in the field and should be fodder for good discussion!

Come brew and review the “Pints & the Past” program with Kristen Butlerfrom the Historical Society of Frederick County and Rebecca O’Learyfrom the Brunswick Heritage Museum.

Also, while visiting, check out the Brunswick Heritage Museum’s newexhibit: “Tipplers and Teetotalers in a Railroad Town”

(This is a Maryland Association of History Museums sponsored program.)